Posts Tagged ‘ideas’
Storms in New Jerusalem
A newbie tackles Baruch Spinoza’s heady philosophizing in Stage West’s latest.JIMMY FOWLER
When Garret Storms auditioned last year for Stage West’s current production of David Ives’ New Jerusalem, his hopes weren’t particularly high. He’d just returned to Fort Worth to live with his family after earning a BFA...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 4 The cavernous Metropolitan Opera was long assumed to be a bad place to stage Baroque operas, with their smaller ensembles and intimate dramas. Yet the New York venue’s staging of Handel’s Rodelinda, about a royal ...
Stage West’s Arms
An 1894 Shaw classic doesn’t seem topical. However …JIMMY FOWLER
At one point during Stage West’s top-shelf revival of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 comedy Arms and the Man, a seasoned manservant tutors a lady’s maid on the secret to being a successful servant: “The key to get on as a s...
Hoist a Bud to Richie Budd
There’s more to this Fort Worth artist than frat-holes getting wasted inside a glass case.JIMMY FOWLER
Fort Worth artist Richie Budd is accustomed to all kinds of unusual reactions to his sculptural installations and so-called “performative sculptures.” But his favorite response so far may be from a New York blogger who took...
Hoist a Bud to Richie Budd
There’s more to this Fort Worth artist than frat-holes getting wasted inside a glass case.JIMMY FOWLER
Fort Worth artist Richie Budd is accustomed to all kinds of unusual reactions to his sculptural installations and so-called “performative sculptures.” But his favorite response so far may be from a New York blogger who took...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: The Lincoln Lawyer (R) Matthew McConaughey stars in this adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel as a defense attorney who tries to save a scion of wealth (Ryan Phillippe) from a murder charge. Also with Marisa Tomei,...
Squeaky Clean
Last CallA high-powered lawyer friend, who happens to be female, recently reminded me of the risks inherent in asking guys out for drinks. Her story goes like this: Not too long ago, she invited a client, who happens to be male, to join...
Dying with Dignity
In Jubilee’s new production, the only gray areas are in the characters’ psyches.Stage
There’s no need for issuing “spoiler alerts” with a play titled A Lesson Before Dying.